My very favorite cranky doctor in the world was kind of an ass sometimes and apparently one of his nurses forgot to write a patient's BP in his chart. Dr C's walls were kind of thin, so I heard him walk into the hall and say "Hey Sunny, so should I just call time of death on Mr Anderson here, because apparently he doesn't have a blood pressure."

Reminds me of a ex primary care doc I fired who asked in shock ‘you were diagnosed with disorder X???’ After I had told him (and he shared with me he’d only had 3 patients so far with disorder X) AND I could see some sheets in my chart with big university logo, a consultation letter that likely stated something about disorder X with in the first three lines.

Documentation fail. That was the moment I realized 1. he keeps terrible office notes and 2. he did not read any of the (at least three) consultation letters the big university docs had sent him.

Send that guy a nicely designed vital signs form he can affix to the front cover of the chart and charge him for the design of the form.

EHR, right?I have an inpatient chart/consult that auto-cites a rx from -someone else- that reads "I just want to give the patient a freaking four-footed cane. Why is that so hard?" [This was what was typed in the sig field when "4-footed cane" was not findable in the rx field.]Written last year on the second day we went to our brand new shiny electronic health record.Sent electronically to the DME supplier, apparently. I laughed so hard I peed a little.

That was a Very Bad Weekend (TM).

I printed out the consult note and still use it to torture the ortho who wrote it.

It sounds like the Doctor who wrote that was a wee bit tired, cranky, and taking a passive-aggressive shot at whoever was supposed to take the vitals for the patient for not writing them where Dr. Cranky could find them with just a quick glance.

I have that feeling nearly every day trying to review nursing home charts. They document in crazy places, and half the time the documentation is on some random flow sheet in a binder, and not in the chart at all.

Welcome to my whining!

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